Every general practitioner has lonely elderly patients whose check-ups double as social events. They have few other occasions for interacting with people. Why not enlist the healthcare system in identifying people who are at highest risk for social isolation or loneliness? According to a major report from the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, […]
Like most twenty-somethings these days, I’m something of a podcast addict, which is why, recently, I listened to the podcast ‘The State of Us’ with journalist and influencer Rosemary McCabe, in an episode called “Baby Fever”. I should start by noting that I follow Rosemary on Instagram. She’s very likeable, candid and honest about her […]
Rob Bilott has just become a partner in Taft Stettinius & Hollister, a large law firm representing big corporations, when Wilbur Tennant asks for his help. Tennant is a farmer from Rob’s home town in West Virginia and he wants to sue DuPont, the giant chemical corporation. Tennant says that toxic waste discharged into a […]
Suíomh de mhór-mhainistir Éireannach ab ea Gleann Dá Loch ar bhunaigh Naomh Caoimhín í atá suite taobh le Páirc Náisiúnta Shléibhte Chill Mhantáin. Mar a thugann an logainm le fios tá sé suite i ngleann a bhfuil dhá loch ann. Tá cloigtheach, séipéil chloiche agus croiseanna maisithe i measc na bhfothracha. Tá ionad cuairteoirí faoi stiúir Oifig […]
I’ve been reflecting on the care and love my grandfather received at the end of his life. He passed away barely a week ago, with two of his daughters (my mother included) at his side, after living a full 84-year life. He was an ambitious man, a photojournalist who forwent family life to travel the […]
Poor Pope Francis has had something of a torrid week of it. It began with the announcement that the Pontiff has been struck down by a mystery illness and was confined to bed. It approaches its end with an unwelcome letter in the post from Ireland’s most high profile Catholic. Of course, it seems fairly […]
Bedside gatherings at a Canadian euthanasia are normally an adults-only affair. But one doctor suggests that young children would benefit from becoming involved. In a blog entry at a University of British Columbia site, Dr Susan Woolhouse, who has been involved in some 70 “assisted deaths”, says “My past experiences during my palliative care rotations reassured […]
Milan is in the grip of an epidemic. Towns have been quarantined. Public gatherings have been cancelled. The streets are empty. Public officials try to dampen mounting hysteria. Dark rumours are circulating. Hospital wards are overflowing. The coronavirus? No, the Great Plague of 1630 in which perhaps a million (1,000,000) people died. Seventeen (17) have died so […]
For the people of Maynooth, Domhnall Ua Buachalla is a name not known to many of the town’s current population. Some may know of him as the propietor of a Hardware Store that had been in his family since 1853. The store itself closed its shutters for good in 2005, with the building presently called […]
‘Maraíodh Seán Sabhat aréir, Fé spéir a’ Tuaiscirt a thit sé, Ag troid ar son na saoirse a bhí sé- Maraíodh Seán Sabhat aréir’ Fuair Seán Sabhat bás ar son saoirse na hÉireann, agus é i mbun troda i gcoinne Fhórsaí na Corónach in Achadh Lon, Co. Fhear Manach ar Lá Caille 1957. Saolaíodh Seán […]
The Cork senior hurlers and footballers will wear a black jersey for their next national league games to commemorate two former Cork City mayors who died in 1920. The first of those was Lord Mayor Tomás Mac Curtain who was murdered by the Royal Irish Constabulary (who Minister Charles Flanagan sought to commemorate) at his house […]
As a child, both my grandmothers would frequently visit us, often staying for months. At every visit, my parents were happy to pay medical specialists to examine them – no matter how minute their complaint – and pamper them by serving them their favorite foods. They also created room for them by giving them a […]